Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks via BBU Offloading
Autor: | Hassan Taheri, Saeedeh Parsaeefard, Nahid Amani, Hossein Pedram |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Optimization problem
Computer Networks and Communications Computer science Distributed computing Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access Aerospace Engineering 020302 automobile design & engineering 02 engineering and technology Energy consumption Transmitter power output 0203 mechanical engineering Automotive Engineering Telecommunications link Resource management Electrical and Electronic Engineering Efficient energy use |
Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 68:1365-1377 |
ISSN: | 1939-9359 0018-9545 |
Popis: | Energy efficient resource allocation in heterogeneous cloud radio access networks (H-CRANs) is considered in this paper where a set of users within a specific region is served by femto-cell access points (FAPs) and remote radio heads (RRHs) connected to the base-band unit (BBU) pool through front-haul links. For orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based uplink H-CRANs, we formulate an energy efficient optimization problem with the novel utility function in order to jointly assign the access point (RRH/FAP), sub-carrier, transmit power, RRH, front-haul link and BBU. Due to highly complex relation between diverse optimization variables and their effects on each other, the formulated optimization problem is non-convex and NP-hard, suffering from high computational complexity. To tackle this issue, we develop an efficient two-step iterative algorithm with low computational complexity to solve the proposed problem based on the successive convex approximation (SCA) and complementary geometric programming (CGP). The simulation results reveal that our proposed approach can effectively offload the traffic from C-RAN to low-power femto-cells, and reduce the energy consumption cost by switching off the under-utilized BBUs. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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